Rashid Mijumbi

Summary
Student:	Rashid Mijumbi
Title:	Self-managed Resources in Network Virtualisation Environments
e-mail:	rashid@tsc.upc.edu
Affiliation:	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Supervisor:	Prof. Joan Serrat and Dr. Juan-Luis Gorricho
Start:	October 2010
End:	October 2014
Funding:	Government of Spain

Biography

Rashid graduated from Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda) with a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering. He is currently a PhD Candidate in the department of Signal Theory and Communications at the Technical University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain); where he is also a member in the Research group Management, Pricing and Services in Next Generation Networks (MAPS).

Research interests

His research interests are in the management of networks and services for the future Internet. Current focus is on resource management in network virtualisation environments. Medium term focus will be on SDN-based network virtualisation and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV).

Recent publications

• Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat and Juan Luis Gorricho, Learning Algorithms for Dynamic Resource Allocation in Virtualised Networks, Management of Large Scale Virtualized Infrastructures: Smart Data Acquisition, Analysis and Network and Service Management in the Future Internet. June 2014.
• Rashid Mijumbi, Juan-Luis Gorricho, Joan Serrat, Maxim Claeys, Jeroen Famaey, Filip De Turck, Neural Network-based Autonomous Allocation of Resources in Virtual Networks, European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2014, Bologna, Italy. Accepted, April 2014.
• Rashid Mijumbi, Juan-Luis Gorricho, Joan Serrat, Contributions to Efficient Resource Management in Virtual Networks, 8th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS), June 30 - July 3, 2014, Brno, Czech Republic. Accepted, March 2014.
• Rashid Mijumbi, Juan-Luis Gorricho, Joan Serrat, Maxim Claeys, Steven Latre, Filip De Turck, Design and Evaluation of Learning Algorithms for Dynamic Resource Management in Virtual Networks, IEEE/IFIP Networks Operations and Management Symposium, (NOMS), 2014. Best Student Paper Award.
• Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat and Juan Luis Gorricho, Multi-Agent Based Resource Allocation in Next Generation Virtual Networks, Proceedings of the 2012 Barcelona Forum on Ph.D. Research in Communication and Information Technologies. October, 2012.
• Rashid Mijumbi, Joan Serrat and Juan Luis Gorricho, Autonomic Resource Management in Virtual Network, Scalable and Adaptive Internet Solutions (SAIL) Summer School Work in Progress Session, Santander, Cantabria. June 2012. Best Work in Progress Award.

Invited Talks

• Learning Algorithms for Dynamic Resource Allocation in Virtualised Networks, Workshop on Management of Large Scale Virtualized Infrastructures: Smart Data Acquisition, Analysis and Network and Service Management in the Future Internet, co-located with European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Bologna, Italy. June 2014. (Invited).
• Application of Learning Techniques to Resource Management in Virtual Networks, Future Internet Technologies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China. December 2013.

Research Visits

• March 22, 2014 - May 02, 2014. Information Technology Laboratory, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico (CINVESTAV), 87130 Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
• October 02, 2013 - January 25, 2014. Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, PR China.
• May 6, 2013 - May 18, 2013. Ghent University 􀀀 iMinds, B-9050 Ghent, Belgium.

External links

• Homepage of Rashid Mijumbi
• Publications of Rashid Mijumbi, as indexed by Google Scholar